Sentences with phrase «for unsympathetic»

The effect of this sort of extremist embellishment will be to make it easier for unsympathetic people to reject the Report - and make it harder to develop a political and community consensus that an act of reconciliation is appropriate.

It is also a reality of the profession that lawyers are required to work for unsympathetic clients whom they simply do not get along with.

It's a mishandled attempt at finding order in chaos, leaning heavily on sympathy for an unsympathetic lead.

So they made the unpopular changes (tax increases and tax cuts for unsympathetic recipients) permanent and made the popular changes temporary with the idea that they would later fix the popular changes.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, the Competition Tribunal proved unsympathetic to the retailers» plight — which is good news for all of us.

The CJR previously cited the rape article at the top of its list of «The Worst Journalism of 2014,» faulting Erdely for failing to check Jackie's account against other sources, including her alleged attackers and three friends who were depicted as unsympathetic to her.

Notwithstanding the clear statistical rationale for making completion of the long - form census mandatory, I'm not entirely unsympathetic to those who say «I shouldn't have to give the government detailed information about my life».

No matter what that knowledge is, it will always be difficult for the person trying to share to not be accused of condescension, arrogance, being unsympathetic, etc..

Even when we have not participated directly in this radical shift, we have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

We have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

Just because I diagnose the reason for your anger, doesn't mean I'm unsympathetic.

Rape victims, for instance, often fail to mention the attack because of the harsh, unsympathetic attitude of UK Border Agency officers and their own culturally - induced shame.

There are few other positions important enough for the elder sibling, who has already been foreign secretary and is too unsympathetic to Ed Miliband's civil liberty agenda to go to the Home Office.

«But for too many people country life is challenging and urgent action is vital to stop villages dying and our market towns being wrecked by unsympathetic development.»

In a damaging critique of the prime minister, General Lord Guthrie said Gordon Brown had been the «most unsympathetic chancellor» to defence budgets and the only senior Cabinet minister who avoided coming to the MoD for briefings.

Tighe had the face - to - face with Quinn in July, warning the once front - runner that the qualities that had made her so successful — drive and ambition, for example — could make voters perceive her as unsympathetic, according to the New York Times.

Another proposed change for voters would be the early voting provisions, which would have to be approved in the unsympathetic Republican - controlled state Senate.

Appearing outside City Hall, the two Latinas savaged Mr. Sanders as historically unsympathetic and even hostile to Latinos, and a poor choice for Hispanic voters in the April 19 New York primary.

A wholly unsympathetic character during his trial, Silver got nailed for 12 years for being too lawyerly by half.

Within police ranks, some officers worry that an unsympathetic supervisor might troll videos for minor infractions to torpedo an officer's career.

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

The film initially opened to hostile, unsympathetic, negative or indifferent critical reviews (it was criticized for being boring and lacking in imagination), and 19 minutes were cut from the film after premieres in Washington, New York, and Los Angeles.

In addition to starring in the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic roles.

They give him all the best lines, whether vulgar («I just got in from Brazil and felt like banging you») or simply unsympathetic («Crying is for maids and monkeys»).

Instead, Duran is depicted as maybe the most unsympathetic on - screen boxer in recent memory, and I give the film extra points for that approach.

She played David Tennant «s sister on BBC drama «Spies Of Warsaw,» just led the remake of «The Lady Vanishes» (she's perhaps a little too modern for the role, but proved admirably unsympathetic in the part), and got her badass on in an episode of Charlie Brooker «s «Black Mirror.»

, only the Kidder segment is indispensible — although I've spent days wondering whether the demure Hussey meant to phrase her motive for doing the film in quite the unsympathetic way she did.

Robbie also accomplishes something truly impressive by portraying a heretofore - unsympathetic character; and making many in the audience have a degree of empathy for Harding while not whitewashing her more unsympathetic character traits.

The film Entourage has little value for those who don't already hold an affinity for the TV series on which it's based and the unsympathetic characters that form it.

Reeling from a terrifying assault that has left him physically injured and psychologically shattered, nineteen - year - old Brad Land must also contend with unsympathetic local police, parents who can barely discuss «the incident» (as they call it), a brother riddled with guilt but unable to slow down enough for Brad to keep up, and the feeling that he'll never be normal again.

So in theory the pranks against Principal Krupp are therapeutic for the pesky lads in an effort to cope with an unsympathetic headmaster that does not really have their best interests in mind.

As strange as it is for Carell to be playing an unsympathetic cad, it's even stranger for him to become a bland tool of the screenplay.

It is populated with characters who seem sympathetic in their motives but unsympathetic in their actions, who seem unworthy of sympathy in any way, or whose qualities and motives are only revealed in their final moments, but McDonagh has limitless compassion for them — not in spite of their flaws but because of them.

Time and body - image issues stoke her desire for revenge, however, putting her on a collision course with Momoa's Miami Man, a brilliant sketch artist who's also a fearsome, unsympathetic consumer of human flesh.

He's meant to be unsympathetic because Miller considers him a «tool» for the way he dresses and actually cares about his future.

All of them had another thing in common: they were packaging disasters with little foot room, scarce provisions for luggage, and interior sound levels that were unsympathetic to the refined eardrums of wealthy potential buyers.

I think that the only character who was truly unsympathetic was the man who pretended to be with the Novembrists but then sold girls into prostitution so he could pay for his house remodeling.

Only Gayle Forman could take what might otherwise be an unsympathetic character and have me cheering for her!»

Some readers might find Roscoe's wife, Marie, unsympathetic: She doesn't hire a lawyer for Roscoe and she refuses to allow their son to communicate with him.

Dave King continues to explore historical fiction pitfalls with this post for Writer Unboxed: sympathetic characters in unsympathetic worlds.

It didn't take the unsympathetic reviews or disappointed fans for the game to break Lorne's heart; Oddworld Inhabitants decided the market was right to set the Quintology to one side and explore new sides to Oddworld.

It will feel a bit crowded and unsympathetic for those looking for an intimate experience, but it's superb as a tactic for defusing pre-Raphaelite melodrama.

Ralf Winkler, the German artist who rose to fame in the 1970s with his caterwauling, violent, humorous, rigorously flat paintings of stick figures, animals and monsters that he signed with the pseudonym A. R. Penck (the better to elude unsympathetic East German officials, at least for a while), has periodically made stuffed felt sculptures.

When an unsympathetic author is writing the generalities that summarize the published literature, it is a waste of time to argue over the proper terms for describing the degree of the overlap in proxies / authors or the validity of one or two proxies.

Given this rule, if a lawyer in Missouri fails to conduct this search and later discovers information that may have impacted a juror's service, he is likely to find the court unsympathetic to a motion for new trial.

However, the Court of Appeal was not unsympathetic to her cause, and found a novel way to award Ms. Strudwick the full amount she originally claimed for, but not in a manner that corresponded precisely to what she originally claimed.

But justice matters even for those who seem unsympathetic upon first consideration.

For example, an employee who engages in sexualized banter and jokes with other co-workers may find an unsympathetic court or tribunal if the employee later claims that the jokes created a poisoned work environment.

Speaking in court she said: ««The fact that I have been left with major scarring on my wrist, which to an unsympathetic observer might look like I am prone to self - harm, is very distressing for me.

Management may be demanding, unsympathetic or even insensitive, but that alone does not afford employees the right to launch a lawsuit or render the company liable for inflicting mental distress.